Chapter 338 Asking for Price
Zhou Hu knows how to hunt. Although it is not easy to catch birds nowadays, he can still catch them. It just takes a little more effort.
Originally, he thought that Manbao's words of catching birds for her and asking his brother to plow the fields for him were an excuse to help him, but who knew that he would see Manbao hanging around in front of his house for several days in a row.
When they asked Erlu, they were asking him if he was free and whether he had gone out to catch birds.
Zhou Hulue thought about it and felt that Manbao was still a child, and children tend to be stubborn, so he found a time to set a trap in the wild. Early the next morning, he asked Erlu to bring a string of birds to Manbao.
There are dead and there are living ones.
Manbao met Erlu as soon as she went out. She was so happy that she picked out three relatively energetic birds and put them in the book box, and asked Erlu to take the rest home to eat.
Er Lu didn't refuse. He glanced at her bookcase and asked, "Are you going to take it to school?"
"Yeah, I want to give it to my friend."
Erlu understood that it must be the students in the school who wanted to see the bird, so Manbao asked his father to catch it.
This was just a small matter and no one took it seriously. Even Zhou Dalang and others who heard about it just thanked Zhou Hu and thought that Manbao had given the bird to Bai Erlang.
On the way, Manbao put the three birds in the book box into the system, then sent one to Dr. D, and posted a sale post on the forum, wanting to place two more orders.
Since the price given to Dr. D was 200,000, the amount on the forum naturally could not be less than this number, so Manbao also set a score of 200,000.
After placing the order, Keke can operate it by himself. Manbao doesn’t care too much. He just turns off the sound and concentrates on the class.
Zhou Hu formed a partnership with the old Zhou family, and the two families went to the fields together.
Winter wheat is planted in fields, where the soil contains more moisture. It rarely rains in winter, so there is no need to worry about flooding.
After plowing the field, the straw roots in the field must be pulled out and thrown away, and all kinds of weeds must also be pulled out. Then the field must be plowed again before fertilizing and sowing.
The two acres of land of Zhou Hu's family seemed too little to the Zhou family. It would take so many people an hour to finish the farming.
The Zhou family plans to plant 20 mu of winter wheat this year, and the wheat seeds alone will cost 400 kilograms.
Old Zhou hadn't planted winter wheat for many years. While planting, he made a wish to God, hoping that there would be good weather and a good harvest next spring.
It won’t be so bad that even the wheat seeds cannot be harvested.
The wheat seeds of both families were planted very quickly, faster than most families in the village.
So Zhou Dalang rolled up his sleeves and was about to take his brothers to Mr. Bai's house to work as temporary laborers. But Zhou Erlang said, "Brother, there are still some vegetables in Xiaowan. I want to sell them all. I also have the winnowing baskets I made at home and want to sell them too. So you go ahead."
Zhou Dalang looked at Zhou Sanlang.
Zhou Sanlang smiled innocently and said, "Brother, I would like to go with you, but the ginger I planted on my wasteland is ready to be harvested. I have to take it to the county town to see the market price."
Zhou Silang immediately said, "Why would you, Third Brother, do such a small thing? Leave it to me. I'll help you sell them all. Every day you just need to pull out the ginger, and I'll take care of the rest."
Zhou Wulang also said, "And me, Third Brother. Eldest Sister also gave us her ginger to sell, and we charge very little for it."
Zhou Sanlang scratched his head and turned to look for Manbao. "Manbao, what do you think?"
Manbao nodded and said, "Sure, Third Brother, you can go to the mountains with Big Brother to pick all those Ligustrum lucidum fruits and dry them in the sun. I'm currently researching how to grow Ligustrum lucidum fruits. Once I figure it out, we can try to grow them ourselves."
Zhou Sanlang asked, "Where do we plant it?"
"Anywhere, there are places everywhere on the mountain."
Zhou Sanlang nodded and said thoughtfully, "That mountain behind us belongs to Big Brother, but there are too many weeds on it, so it's difficult to grow trees. But if we just dig a hole and plant a tree, it shouldn't be difficult. Isn't this Ligustrum lucidum also a tree? It originally grew on the mountain. So we can just dig a hole and plant it. We just need to pay more attention to fertilizing and that'll be enough."
Manbao felt that his third brother was right and nodded, "I think so too."
Of course, she would have to wait until she got to know Dr. D better before asking him how to grow Ligustrum lucidum.
So Manbao found time to chat with Dr. D again in the evening.
Dr. D disappeared after receiving the bird from her last time. Of course, the points were given to Manbao, and now Manbao’s points have reached 780,000.
Unfortunately, although some people read the posts in the forum, no one placed an order. The two little birds are still in the system, eating the wheat that Manbao collected in the space.
As usual, Manbao sent an email to Dr. D, asking about her research progress and whether there was anything she could help with.
Just after she sent the email, she suddenly heard a buzz on the forum, and she realized that someone was looking for her to inquire about an order.
Manbao hurried to check. It was a message from someone at the United Nations Research Institute. "Are the birds in the picture from your world? Are there many of them? Are there any birds with blue tail feathers?"
Manbao asked back, "Do you want to buy my bird?"
"You need to tell me the basic situation first so I can decide whether to buy it or not."
After Dr. D was banned from speaking, Manbao knew that some questions were not good for her or the other person, so she answered very selectively: "There are many tree sparrows. You can search for their entries in the encyclopedia."
"What about the bird with blue tail feathers? Do you have any of them there?"
"I'm selling tree sparrows."
The other party obviously didn't expect Manbao to insist on this topic so much, and to be so stubborn. He was silent for a long time before replying, "I want both tree sparrows, but I think 400,000 points is too much."
Manbao's heart was pounding, and after pressing it, he asked, "How much do you want?"
"Two hundred thousand for two."
"That's impossible." Two hundred thousand wouldn't be enough for his mother's medicine. Manbao didn't even consider Dr. D at this time and directly lowered the price, "Three hundred thousand for two. If you agree, I'll give it to you."
“Too expensive.”
Then the other party immediately went offline.
Manbao stared with eyes wide open, looking at him in disbelief. She couldn't help but grumble to Koko, "This person is so rude! How could he leave without saying goodbye?"
Koko said nothing.
"Besides, 300,000 points is already very low. I bought some potions for my mother, so I just happened to have some left."
Koko still didn't say anything, letting Manbao talk for a while. When she felt better, she said, "Host, it's time for you to go to bed."
Manbao lay down on the bed listlessly, and after a while he said hesitantly: "Actually, I can lower it even more."
Although Koko couldn't understand this mentality, from the behavioral psychology it searched, it was obvious that this was what the other party wanted to achieve.
Humans did not say that this kind of submission was a bad behavior, so Koko did not say anything to stop it.
But Manbao was still a child, and was obviously very willful. Although she wanted to lower the price deep down, she felt that the other party was very impolite, so she didn't really want to make this deal with him. She just secretly said to herself: next time if she meets such a buyer who dislikes high prices, she can lower the price a little bit, as long as she can buy medicine for her mother.
(End of this chapter)
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